James H MC GregorJames H. Mc Gregor is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, Athens. Among his publications are The Shades of Aeneas: The Imitation of Vergil and the History of Paganism in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Filocolo, and Teseida (niversity of Georgia Press, 1991); Luigi Guicciardini, The Sack of Rome (ed., Italica Press, 1993); Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron (MLA, 2000); Rome from the Ground Up (Harvard University Press, 2005); Venice from the Ground Up (Harvard University Press, 2006); and Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present (Yale University Press, 2015). Read More Read Less